Saw 1917 this weekend. Intense, relentless, liked the compact story.
But as i was watching it something was bugging me and it clicked into place the moment they hit the farm and the fat guy turned around to face Will/the camera and say "we have to make sure" and the camera pushed through the stone gate.
The movie is an on-rails shooter/Call of Duty clone. Sam Mendez was just chilling on his couch playing COD or Edith Finch or whatever and is like "why has no one made a movie like this yet?"
- Movie opens on protagonist "hey you, General wants to see us"
- Tutorial section moving through camp with exposition
- [Celebrity Cameo] General gravely gives impossible mission that only two guys can do for [reason]
- Exposition/scene setting walk through trenches
- Music swells as letterboxing pulls back when you climb the ladder - Mission 1: Cross No Man's Land
- Cut scene as they rise to jump into the German trench
- QTE sequence where they explore/clear corners in the trench
- Mission 2: Clear the Bunker ends with "we have to get out of here !" QTE sequence with them tumbling out the door into the light while dust belches out of cave/door
- Cut scene exposition, sad story for fat guy about life at home
- "Farm looks abandoned" - "We have to make sure !" Mission 3: Clear Farm
- Cut scene, guy dies and then literally 1 minute later [Celebrity Cameo] Officer and his FUCKING TRUCKS pull up
- Cut Scene truck ride for again, somehow literally only 3 min to a large bombed out town
and so on
once Mark Strong showed up to be the grizzled-but-kind Officer trope I was all thoroughly distracted